9 April 2024
Green Park wins Inclusivity Initiative of the Year at the Corporate LiveWire Global Awards.
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Jo Sweetland, Managing Director
“A global talent advisory firm, Green Park is an industry pioneer in building diverse, senior leadership teams and more equitable workplace cultures.”
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Jo Heath, Managing Partner and Head of DICE
“Championing Diversity & Inclusion since our inception, we are driven by the core belief that there’s no shortage of talent, only opportunity.”
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Kai Adams, Managing Partner
“We deliver sustainable business value on a global scale to help organisations bring the future into focus.”
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Trevor Phillips, Chair
"Our clients benefit from our data-rich insights into what will drive productivity today and continue innovation through turbulence tomorrow.”
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Colin Salmon, Chair of the Green Park Foundation
“Through the Foundation, Green Park aim to deliver £1million of social value per annum to improving children lives and creating a more sustainable, equitable world”
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David Needham, Managing Partner
"Our candidate care lasts long past the point of placement and is key to the rich relationships we build from a foundation of trust, authenticity, transparency and inclusion."
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Raj Tulsiani, CEO & Co-Founder
“We founded Green Park in 2006 with a mission to change the face of leadership. We retain that same passion and entrepreneurial spirit today as when we started.”
Statistics show that only 3.3% of FTSE100 Chairs, CEOs and CFOs are black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME), with no improvement in this number since 2014, according to the Green Park Leadership 10,000 report.
The findings also show that in the Top 20 roles of Board and Executive Committee members, BAME representation dropped from 8.8% in 2018 to 7.4% in 2019. Whereas in Top 100 roles, covering the leadership pipeline, numbers flatlined at 10.7% in 2019 and 10.6% in 2018.
Trever Phillips, Chair of Green Park, noted that despite promises of change and improvement in gender diversity, “people of colour seem to be superglued to the floor.”
The introduction of Chief Diversity Officers is an essential move for companies that truly want to see a change. This has proved successful in the US and if the UK do not keep up with their competitors in this way they will fall behind.
While women are seeing an improvement at Top 20 level, particularly in Non-Executive roles, they too are failing to crack the glass ceiling in the Top 3 roles; Chair, CEO and CFO. At the current rate of progress, based on an increase of 16 females since 2014, it would take 50 years for women and men to have proportional representation in these roles.
Raj Tulsiani, CEO of Green Park comments: “companies need to focus on diversity in the true sense of the word and tackle both gender and race. If British Business is serious about presenting a modern face to the world, they must invest and provide the correct resources to match.”
The above is a summary of an article published in Personnel Today 4/12/19. For the full Personnel Today article, please click here.
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